Books by Alejandra B Osorio
Chapters and Articles by Alejandra B Osorio
l Palazzo Reale di Napoli nel contesto globale. Le residenze dei viceré e dei governatori nel sistema della monarchia ispanica, ed. Bianca de Divitiis (Quaderni di Palazzo Reale, 4). Naples, Editori Paparo, pp. 22-26., 2024
Las noblezas de la monarquía de España (1556-1725), 2024
Espacio, tiempo y forma, 2023
Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 25, 2023
From their very foundations religion was intrinsic to the shape and composition of Spanish Americ... more From their very foundations religion was intrinsic to the shape and composition of Spanish American cities. These urban spaces were politically constituted through new governing techniques and exercise of monarchical rule articulated in elaborate ceremonial regimes organized around the figure of the Spanish king and Catholic religious rituals. In the sixteenth century the piety of the monarch constituted the foundation of good government, and piety and Christian virtues were the foundations of sovereign rule (Coreth 2004, 1). The defeat by the Trastámaran dynasty of the Caliphate of Granada in 1492, and the election of Charles I king of Spain as Holy Roman Emperor in 1519, made imagining a universal Christian empire possible. Seen as the direct successor of the Roman emperors of antiquity, the Holy Roman Emperor, as the counterpart of the pope in Rome, held an authority superior to all other monarchs, akin to a king of kings. As king of Spain, in 1516 Charles I inherited the New World kingdoms, and with his election in 1519 as Holy Roman Emperor Charles V became the first Habsburg to rule the world, allowing not only to envision a truly unified world by Catholicism, but also his dynasty as true Lords of All the World (Rady 2020, 63-74; Pagden 1995, 11-62; Yates 1975, 25-27).¹ The Royal Patronage of the New World Church, which in 1501 Pope Alexander VI granted to the Spanish monarchy, with rights to the Church tithes from the Indies to finance their evangelization, further reinforced the idea of a unified world in Catholicism under the dominion of the Spanish Habsburg monarch.² With the discovery of the New World (ca. 1492) and the conquest of the Aztec empire (ca. 1519), the conversion to Catholicism of the inhabitants of the new continent became a paramount objective of the Spanish Habsburg monarchy. Through most of the sixteenth century, the organization of the New World Church and the conversion of its indigenous populations was carried out by mendicant orders (Melvin 2012). These conversions were achieved through education of Catholic principles and dogma imparted in the missions and Indian towns (reducciones) where indigenous peoples were relocated to facilitate their Christian faith instruction. Catholic teachings also included music, in some cases Latin, and other arts, as well as continuous participation 1 See Tanner 2018 and 1993. 2 In 1508, Pope Julius II in the bull Universalis ecclesiae, granted Ferdinand and Isabella and their successors the right to propose to Rome candidates from archbishops downward for churches in the Indies. This also gave rights to the monarchy to oversee the building and endowment of cathedrals, churches, monasteries, and hospitals, which were all financed by the tithes collected in the American possessions. In 1538 with the Bull Sublime Deus, the crown further claimed the rights to inspection, with veto power, over all papal dispatches to the Indies. After the creation in 1524 of the Royal Council of the Indies, the running of the Royal Patronage fell under its jurisdiction.
Culture and History, 2022
In his Libro Histórico Político, Solo Madrid es Corte (1658), the royal chronicler Alonso Núñez d... more In his Libro Histórico Político, Solo Madrid es Corte (1658), the royal chronicler Alonso Núñez de Castro, de ned Court as the head that governs; where reason and the king (as head of his kingdoms) his councilors, vassals, and other important men reside. Núñez, emphasized Madrid's population, listed its councils and described their functions, in detail explained the etiquette observed around the King' body, and included the hierarchy of all his kingdoms and provinces in the Spanish Habsburg empire, offering detailed accounts of their nances and contributions to the royal treasure. The work, in fact, established the imperial space (and geography) of the larger Spanish Habsburg political body, with Madrid as its courtly and political-cultural head. In its structure and arguments, Núñez's work followed principles established at the end of the 16 th century by Giovanni Botero as characteristic of a great city and in works describing the greatness of Lima and of the city of Mexico. A comparison of Madrid with other courtly cities of the Spanish Habsburg Empire helps elucidate reasons for its low pro le as referent in the documentation of the New World, despite its place after 1561, as the political-administrative head of the empire.
El mundo cultural y artístico de las mujeres en la Edad Moderna (s. XVI), Esther Alegre Carvajal (editor) , 2021
El mundo cultural y artistico de las mujeres en la edad moderna (s. XVI), Esther Alegre Carvajal (ed.) , 2021
Apariencia y razón. Las artes y la arquitectura en el reinado de Felipe III, 2020
Renaissance Studies, 2019
The political culture that defined the Spanish empire was made up of elements that, borrowing fro... more The political culture that defined the Spanish empire was made up of elements that, borrowing from their different points of contact, travelled the world‐around being transformed in the process into a mixed style that defied a clear origin (or original). This political culture was based on sixteenth‐ and seventeenth‐century understandings of the copy as an original that not only made possible the dissemination in the empire of the figure and powers of the absent king by making him ‘present’, but also produced common understandings of his figure, powers, and genesis of the empire. By examining ceremonial deployments of royal simulacra in various cities of the vast Spanish monarchy, and coeval understandings of the copy, this article, argues that the cultural production of this empire cannot be best understood within ahistorical centre‐periphery frameworks of cultural production and/or as derivative colonial phenomena, as do notions of cultural hybridity and of ‘colonial’ art.
Radical History Review, Jan 2018
National geographies (and narratives) have characterized the boundaries of the his- toriographies... more National geographies (and narratives) have characterized the boundaries of the his- toriographies of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish Empire, producing works that are too often limited to case studies of nation-states (Spain, Italy, Peru, Mexico, etc.). Atlantic studies proposed an alternative to national frameworks for the writing of history that created new (anachronistic) frontiers for the study of empire. The notion of colonial and understandings of the geopolitics of modernity as one of centers and peripheries further obscured the wider workings of the Spanish Empire. Through an analysis of the political culture in various locales of the Spanish Habsburg world, this article proposes new approaches for thinking and writing such histories of empire while reflecting on the limits that the analytical and conceptual frameworks of colonial Latin American and Atlantic history pose for the study of a vast empire with possessions well beyond these geographical locations that was yet to become colonial.
https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137541291, 2017
Fronteras. Procesos y prácticas de integración y conflictos entre Europa y América (Siglos XVI-XX) Favarò, Valentina, Manfredi Merluzzi y Gaetano Sabatini 9788437507361 FONDO DE CULTURA ECONÓMICA (FCE), 2017
Festival Culture in the World of the Spanish Habsburg. Edited by Fernando Checa and Laura Fernández-González. Forward by Teófilo F. Ruiz.
Las representaciones del poder en las sociedades hispánicas. Edited by Óscar Mazín., 2012
Tradición y Modernidad en la historia de la cultura política: España e Hispanoamérica, siglos XVI-XX. Edited by Ricardo Forte and Natalia Silva Prada., 2009
La sociedad monárquica en la América hispánica. Edited by Magali Carrillo and Isidoro Venegas., 2009
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Books by Alejandra B Osorio
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Deux axes principaux seront privilégiés. Le premier concerne le rôle joué par les langues vernaculaires dans le gouvernement et l’administration des diverses possessions de la maison de Habsbourg et dans les relations entre État et sujets. En second lieu, il s’agira de savoir dans quelle mesure les relations dynastiques et politiques entre des espaces culturels gouvernés par la même dynastie ont favorisé les échanges et l’interpénétration linguistique.
Die Tagung ist Teil eines Forschungsprojekts zu den »Habsburgern in Europa«, das von den drei Forschungszentren ERLIS (Caen), CIRLEP (Reims) und CERCLL (Amiens) getragen wird und an den Forschungsschwerpunkt des DHIP zu »Wandel und Beharrung. Staatensysteme und Staatsbildungsprozesse in der Vormoderne« anschließt. Ihr Gegenstand sind die wichtigsten Vernakularsprachen jener Gebiete in Europa, die im Laufe der Frühen Neuzeit unter der Herrschaft des Hauses Habsburg standen.
Zwei Schwerpunkte werden dabei gesetzt. Einerseits soll die Rolle der Vernakularsprachen in der Regierung und der Verwaltung der unterschiedlichen Besitzungen des Hauses Habsburg untersucht werden. Andererseits geht es darum herauszufinden, in welchem Ausmaß dynastische und politische Beziehungen zwischen von derselben Dynastie beherrschten Kulturräumen sprachlichen Austausch und die wechselseitige Durchdringung von Sprachen gefördert haben.
El curso se completa con cuatro horas de consulta de materiales y participación activa del estudiante en el foro del curso virtual.